Stephen Hawking at his office at the department of applied mathematics and theoretical physics at Cambridge University in 2005. Photograph: Murdo Macleod for the Guardian

From The Guardian/International Edition: 'Mind over matter': Stephen Hawking – obituary by Roger Penrose
Theoretical physicist who made revolutionary contributions to our understanding of the nature of the universe

The image of Stephen Hawking – who has died aged 76 – in his motorised wheelchair, with head contorted slightly to one side and hands crossed over to work the controls, caught the public imagination, as a true symbol of the triumph of mind over matter.

Principally drafted by McGill University Prof. John Peters Humphrey at the request of Henri Laugier (with Free French) when he became the Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations as of 1946. The UN General Assembly unanimously adopted the Declaration on December 10, 1948. John Humphrey oversaw 67 international conventions and constitutions of dozens of nations, including the status of women, Amnesty International and participated in international commissions of inquiry. He was the first Director of the UN Division of Human Rights, a step towards what has since 2006 become the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva.

Article 27: Everyone has the right [ ...] to share in scientific advancement and its benefits.

We know that Andrea Rossi has never really been completely satisfied with any version of the E-Cat. From the very beginning of his going public we have seen various models, ranging from low temperature E-Cats to Hot Cats, to the E-Cat QX.

The goal for ICCF-21 has been to organize a very cost effective
conference. There are affordable turn-key registration option that
includes the conference meeting, accommodations, dining and conference
add-ons.

Latest Estimate on The Universe's Expansion Shows We Need New Physics to Explain It by MIKE MCRAE/ 23 FEB 2018 (Science alert)

Physics is about to get weird, and we're here for it!

Astronomers have come up with the most precise measurement of the Universe's expansion rate so far - and sure enough, it still appears to be accelerating.

The increasing speed shouldn't come as a shock – we've suspected it for a while. What this measurement does is reduce the odds that it's a coincidence to 1 in 5,000, meaning we're really going to need some clever new ideas to explain it...(Full article here)--------------

Physicists Have Confirmed a Pear-Shaped Nucleus, And It Could Ruin Time Travel Forever by BEC CREW/ 24 FEB 2018 (Science alert)

From News.MIT.edu: The team’s test device, which has been deployed on the roof of an MIT building for several months, was used to prove the principle behind their new energy-harvesting concept. The test device is the black box at right, behind a weather-monitoring system (white) and a set of test equipment to monitor the device’s performance (larger black case at left). /Image: Justin Raymond

System draws power from daily temperature swingsTechnology developed at MIT can harness temperature fluctuations of many kinds to produce electricity. /David L. Chandler | MIT News Office/ February 15, 2018

DMB writes: In this submission, we address the possibility of using tandem synchronous machines in a stabilized slipped-pole condition as a free energy prime mover for driving a third synchronous generator feeding the grid.

When I was an electrical engineering student in machines class, one of the students asked, "What happens when a synchronous machine slips a pole?" The answer was something like, "large torque pulsations occur, huge transients flow, and breakers trip..."

This was clearly an unstable slipped-pole condition whereas this document claims to investigate a stabilized slipped-pole condition. The questions arise "How do we achieve that, and what does it look like?"

From To The Stars Academy: Don’t miss Dr. Hal Puthoff, co-founder and VP of Science and Technology, who is making his first guest appearance on the nationally syndicated Coast-to-Coast AM with George Knapp on Sunday January 28th...

Dr. Puthoff, known as a pioneer physicist who conducted the first studies of remote viewing for the CIA and spearheading cutting-edge research into zero point energy and other exotic propulsion concept, will be on the first half of the show with colleague and fellow physicist Dr. Eric Davis, who previously studied UAPs and related phenomena at the National Institute for Discovery Science.

FDT writes: In order to better understand the physical structure of space, it is important to first of all establish that space is a three dimensional construction. We can have rotation in a two dimensional plane, with the rotation axis in the third dimension. Pythagoras's theorem applies in three dimensional Euclidean space with the angles in the triangle being related to rotation. The question is, could Pythagoras's theorem hold in space of higher dimensions? The reason for the question is because it is freely used in the Minkowski four dimensional space-time continuum of Special Relativity. Pythagoras's theorem worked its way into the four dimensional Minkowski world simply through two successive applications of the ordinary three dimensional version. But does this then become a genuine four dimensional usage? In the linked article it is suggested that apart from in three dimensions, the only other possibility might be for Pythagoras's theorem to hold in seven dimensions.

Physicist King expands, with diagrams, on how zero-point water energy can be used with the tremendous fluctuations of electrical field energy embedded within the fabric of space. King explains how gas emitted from popular water electrolyzer projects manifests unusual energetic anomalies, which include vaporizing tungsten when used in a welding torch, and running internal combustion engines on small quantities of the gas. Some claim to run generators in closed loop fashion solely on the gas from the electrolyzer, which is powered solely from the generator. Most investigators believe the energy comes from burning hydrogen. A hypothesis is proposed that the dominant energy does not come from hydrogen, but rather it comes from charged water gas clusters, which activate and coherently trap zero-point energy. Cavitating the water in the electrolyzers appears to maximize gas and energy production. Packed with diagrams, patents and photos.

Anonymous writes: Physicists have created what they say is the first device that's capable of generating particles that behave as if they have negative mass.

The device generates a strange particle that's half-light/half-matter, and as if that isn't cool enough, it could also be the foundation for a new kind of laser that could operate on far less energy than current technologies.

In this optical microcavity, created by the lab of Nick Vamivakas, confined light interacts with an atomically thin semiconductor to create particles with negative mass. The device also presents “a way to generate laser light with an incrementally small amount of power,” says Vamivakas, an associate professor of quantum optics and quantum physics at Rochester’s Institute of Optics. (Illustration by Michael Osadciw/University of Rochester)

FDT writes: A black hole is a highly speculative concept deriving from the theoretical principle that a gravitational field could become so strong that the escape velocity would exceed the speed of light, in conjunction with the idea that light would be drawn towards gravitating bodies in the same manner as atomic and molecular matter. Despite the fact that the idea is commonly believed to follow from Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, it could just as easily have been speculated on the back of Newton's classical law of gravity. And what is invariably overlooked when discussing the subject of black holes, is the additional inverse cube law repulsive force which acts in planetary orbits in opposition to gravity, better known as the centrifugal force.

… a living organism continually increases its entropy — or, as you may say, produces positive entropy — and thus tends to approach the dangerous state of maximum entropy, which is of death. It can only keep aloof from it, i.e. alive, by continually drawing from its environment negative entropy. What an organism feeds upon is negative entropy... the essential thing in metabolism is that the organism succeeds in freeing itself from all the entropy it cannot help producing while alive [Erwin Schrödinger, “What is Life?”]